an idea or a plan of action that is suggested, especially in business 提议，建议，计划（尤指业务上的） I'd like to put a business proposition to you. 我想向您提个业务上的建议。 🔊🔊 He was trying to make it look like an attractive proposition. 他正设法使他的计划显得吸引人。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Suggestions and advicec1Ring up your agent in New York and put your proposition to him. 给你在纽约的代理人打电话，把你的建议告诉他。 Is that a viable proposition? 那个建议可行吗？ We have a proposition to make. 我们要提个建议。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- attractive
- tempting
- win-win
- …
- put to somebody
- consider
- accept
- …
a thing that you intend to do; a problem, task or person to be dealt with 欲做的事；待处理的问题；任务 Extra ExamplesRunning the business was one thing. Getting it to make a profit was a different proposition altogether. 经营管理企业是一回事，要能使之盈利则完全是另一回事。 He's a different proposition from his father—much less tolerant. 他和他父亲不同——他不那么宽容。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- difficult
- tough
- tricky
- …
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(in the US) a suggested change to the law that people can vote on （美国）法律修正议案 - (formal)
a statement that expresses an opinion 见解；主张；观点 Her assessment is based on the proposition that power corrupts. 她的分析是建立在权力使人堕落的观点上的。 🔊🔊 The book puts forward a number of extreme propositions about the nature of language. 这本书对语言的本质提出了一些极端的见解。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- basic
- central
- fundamental
- …
- set
- advance
- express
- put forward
- …
- concern something
- relate to something
- proposition about
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mathematics 数学 a statement of a theorem, and an explanation of how it can be proved 命题 First of all we need to examine whether this proposition is true. 首先，我们需要检查这个主张是否正确。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin propositio(n-), from the verb proponere ‘set forth’, from pro- ‘forward’ + ponere ‘put’.